Big,Loud and Shiny

There’s a general understanding in all creative fields that if everything is big, nothing’s big. 

Similarly, if everything is loud, nothing’s loud and if everything is shiny, nothing is shiny. So, here we  are, not even a full year into the big, loud, shiny administration and it’s been decided for all of us that what we all want, what we all need, what we’ve all been craving is a ballroom. A big, loud, shiny ballroom. A Versailles-like ballroom but bigger. A gold-plated, really big ballroom for really big balls, one supposes, though there are none of those in evidence.

And this epic ballroom will be twice the size of the home it’s attached to. Our home. The nation’s home. It’ll look like one of those McMansions in suburban Philadelphia, where already oversized structures are given super-sized “family-room” additions, because the owners couldn’t figure out how to live in their starter mansions. Wealth and power must be terrible burdens, if you don’t have the brains, common sense and good taste to know what to do with them. 

Thus the ballroom. 

“Too much of anything is bad”  

– William Shakespeare